Analysis of Comforted People



Who measured waters with His hand,
Marked off the Heavens with a span;
Enclosed the dust upon the land,
Weighed the mountains scaled to His plan.

Who scoped the Spirit of the Lord,
Or what man shows Him His counsel;
Who is solely in one accord,
To be considered a stencil.

Whom did He consult to translate,
And who had made Him understand;
Another to emancipate,
The path to justice through the land.

Who taught Him the path of justice,
And taught Him knowledge and wisdom;
For showing Him how to practice,
While reigning in His Kingdom.

The nations are like a pin heads,
Accounted as dust on the scales;
Doing impure things in their beds,
And filled with immoral details.

They are not sufficient to burn,
Nor their beasts enough to offer;
But still, they must start to learn,
To go through this life and suffer.

The nations are nothing before Him,
They are withal for vanity;
That makes the Lord in feeling grim.
Being filled with insanity.

Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 988
Words 209
Sentences 9
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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The Lord is Incomparable Isaiah 40:12-17

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Written on December 12, 2022

Submitted by sir_ricky on December 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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